%0 Journal Article
%T An¨¢lisis cr¨ªtico del Modelo de Variaci¨®n Ciega y Retenci¨®n Selectiva de la Creatividad
%A Aranguren
%A Mar¨ªa
%J Interdisciplinaria
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the main objective of this work was to examine some of the most relevant articles on the blind variation and selective retention model of creativity (bvsr) presented by simonton (1999a, 1999b, 2005, 2007a, 2007b). the bvsr model is an explanatory model of creativity grounded in a larger theoretical framework known as secondary darwinism. darwinian theories of creativity can be classified in two groups (feist, 2001; simonton, 1999a, 2005). the first group, known as primary darwinism or primary theories of darwinism, is directly connected with darwin's original formulation of biological evolution (simonton, 2005). the principal purpose of primary theories is to understand the evolutionary processes underlying the emergence of species whose members are able to show creative behavior. in other words, primary theories attempt to explain how creative and aesthetic skills emerge in the human being, focusing the attention on the origin and evolution of those behaviors. on the other hand, secondary darwinism, "holds that creativity operates in a fashion analogous to the darwinian theory of biological evolution" (simonton, 2005, p. 299). in this sense, the bvsr model of creativity applies metaphorically the darwinian theory to the cognitive processes involved in creativity. thus, the mechanisms underlying the generation of new ideas are similar to the mechanisms that explain biological evolution in darwinian terms. one of the leading expert of this model is simonton (1999a, 1999b, 2005, 2007a, 2007b), who has expanded and redefined some of the main issues considered by the original model raised by campbell (1960). both, campbell as simonton suggest that there is no teleology in the creative process as well as discovering new ideas. it's for this reason they call their blind variation and selective retention model (bvsr). the attribute of blind is intended to highlight the lack of foresight in the production of variations: the inability to generative deliberately more adaptive
%K creativity
%K explanatory model
%K blind variation
%K selective retention
%K darwinism.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1668-70272010000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en